TLDR = what’s a good next step after kid-friendly 3d creation tools?
Solved = Fusion360 is voted as winner, we even got a nice tutorial playlist.

Hi all - I’m still very much a new user. Highly skilled in IT but just getting my feet wet in 3D printing, since a month or so. I love the possibilities! I can physically create anything I can image, it’s amazing.

So far, I’ve used mostly TinkerCad and done lots with it. The learning curve is practically non-existent, and it has sufficient features to do a lot.

But of course it’s not perfect. Obvious example: can’t do fillets, except in roundabout ways using negative blocks.

I’ve tried OnShape, OpenScad, Fusion 360, but found them quite a steep hill to climb.

Are these good choices, or is there something in-between that would make it easier for me to advance?

  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Fusion 360 is the middle ground. Beyond that you’re looking at solidworks.

    It is just a steep learning curve. Keep grinding. The thing about steep learning curves is that it’s more rewarding when you make progress.

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      1 year ago

      Fusion360 is great.

      The two things I dislike about it though is the lack of linux support and the fact that you have to store your projects in their cloud. Personally I would prefer local only projects which I can easily include in a git repository without having to manually export my model every time I make a change to it.

      So far FreeCad seems like the best option for me in regards to those points but it is definitely less intuitive than Fusion360

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        1 year ago

        I only use freecad and it sucks. But it’s not infested with corporate bullshit like cloud saves, so it’s automatically better than fusion 360.

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        1 year ago

        in the cloud

        From what I read, the free tier only allows to save 10 models, total, ever, then I’d need a paid version. Is that accurate?

        • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world
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          No you can only have 10 read/write models at the same time but as far as I found you can store as many read-only models as you want and you can toggle them back and forth. Also, you also can store the files locally, or at least export them to a local fusion file.